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Subject: Re: NeWS down-played in OW 2.0
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Date: 24 Aug 90 18:15:15 GMT
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[ Discussion about why NeWS isn't on every desktop...]

There seems to be a significant sub-culture of people who liked
NeWS so much they tried poting it (yeah, even way back in 1987).
The ports worked real well, but unfortunately many of these people
got so fed up of Sun's attitude to these people who were trying to
help promote this product that they went away and did more rewarding
things instead.  To the best of my knowledge, Mark Callow is the only
one of these people who has lasted the course.

Now, if only Gosling had set up an independent software house when
he left CMU, things might indeed have been different.

Please stop blaming X.  It may be bad, it may be political, but I
think it is really just expanding into a vacuum.

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